Example sentences of "and set off towards the " in BNC.

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1 Before he could close it the crowd swarmed past him in their hundreds and set off towards the castle at a trot .
2 Alec slipped by me and set off towards the changing room at a sprint .
3 Eventually the little bus was summoned again , and we jumped in thankfully and set off towards the plane , only to grind to a halt at Operations again .
4 By the time we had driven to Port Eynon , the wind had really picked up but not easily deterred , we abandoned the car and set off towards the cliffs .
5 He chuckled quietly and set off towards the feeding animals .
6 But He hummed a little tune , cheery as a plague pit , and — pausing only to extract the life from a passing mayfly , and one-ninth of the lives from a cat cowering under the fish stall ( all cats can see into the octarine ) — Death turned on His heel and set off towards the Broken Drum .
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